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Recommended storage periods
(when frozen from fresh)
Fruit syrup or sugar packed fruit up to 12 months
Open frozen or puréed fruit up to 18 months
Fruit juices up to 6 months
Lamb up to 10 months
Beef up to 10 months
Pork up to 6 months
Veal up to 6 months
Minced meat up to 3 months
Cured meats up to 2 months
Sausages up to 3 months
Packed bacon up to 3 months
Smoked bacon/ chops/ gammon steaks up to 2 months
Unsmoked bacon/ chops/ gammon steaks up to 1 month
Chicken up to 8 months
Duck up to 5 months
Goose up to 5 months
Turkey up to 6 months
White fish up to 5 months
Oily fish including salmon up to 2 months
Smoked salmon up to 3 months
Caviar don't freeze
Shellfish up to 1 month
Butter up to 6 months
Cheese up to 6 months
Suet up to 6 months
Cream - double/ whipping up to 3 months
Eggs - only freeze separated up to 10 months
Milk up to 1 month
USING YOUR UpRIGhT fREEzER
Preparations for freezing
• Leave cooked food to cool completely.
• Chill food in the fridge before freezing if possible.
• Consider how you want to cook the food before freezing it.
• Don’t freeze food in metal containers as you may want to microwave
`it straight from the freezer.
• Use special freezer bags available from supermarkets, freezer film,
polythene bags, plastic containers, aluminium foil (heavy grade only, if
in doubt, double wrap). Don’t use aluminium foil for acidic foods (such
as citrus fruits). Don’t use thin cling film or glass. Don’t use used food
containers (unless cleaned thoroughly first).
• Exclude as much air from the container as possible. You could
buy a special vacuum pump which sucks excessive air out of
the packaging.
• Leave a small amount of ‘air space’ when freezing liquids, to allow
for expansion.
• You can use the space in the upright freezer most efficiently if you
freeze liquids (or solids with liquids, such as stew) in square blocks. This
is known as ‘preforming’. Pour the liquid into a polythene bag which is
inside a square sided container. Freeze it like this, then remove it from
the container and seal the bag.
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